I am a fantasy & sci-fi writer as well as a playwright, living in Austin TX.

Thursday, July 14, 2016

An Import of Intrigue: Writing My Favorite Secondary Character

Folks, in a few months my fourth novel, An Import of Intrigue, is coming out.

I'm very excited for this book, and it was very fun to write, in part because I got to do more with my favorite secondary character in the Constabulary cast, Corrie Welling.

Corrie is Minox's younger sister, and she's just as dedicated to a career in the Maradaine Constabulary as he is. But she's also still early in her career, and facing a bit of an uphill climb being a woman who actually serves in the streets-- as opposed to taking the clerking desk position that her cousin Nyla works. So she works the shift she can-- horsepatrol on the night shift. "Working the dark", as she calls it.

She also swears in ways that would make a sailor blush, at least in terms of Maradaine's own unique forms of profanity.

Corrie really gets to shine in An Import of Intrigue. In A Murder of Mages, she is mostly just some extra color. In Import she's elevated to a point-of-view character, she becomes integral to the plot.

Corrie is, of course, one of the many reasons why I'm thrilled with An Import of Intrigue, and hopefully all the fans of the Constabulary books will be pleased with where their story goes.